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NEW DELHI: The bloody mayhem of 26/11 may have been a reason to touch the raw nerves of Mumbai lawyers who refused to represent the lone surviving terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab, but by doing so they actually might be harming the interest of the nation in securing his conviction for the carnage, feels Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan. The CJI, speaking to TOI from Tel Aviv in Israel where he on an official visit, was clearly of the view that if Kasab did not get a lawyer to defend himself, then he has a fair chance of getting acquitted in the higher courts on the ground that the trial was vitiated as he could not present his case properly.

LAHORE: Awais Sheikh , the Pakistani lawyer of slain Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh , has told police that the armed men who abducted him and his son were " Pashto-speaking ". According to the FIR registered by police, Sheikh and his son Shahrukh were intercepted by four to five men travelling in a red pick-up truck and a motorcycle yesterday morning. The armed men then bundled them into the pick-up. Sheikh said the kidnappers did not talk to him or his son while they were in captivity.

SINGAPORE: Singapore's activist lawyer M Ravi has applied to the High Court to quash the deportation order of one of the 57 foreign workers sent home for their alleged involvement in the December 8 riot in the city-state. Ravi is also asking for Rajendran Ranjan's work permit to be reinstated, so that the 22-year-old Indian can continue working in Singapore, The Straits Times reported today. Ranjan had initially been accused of being part of a group of seven men who used a wooden stick, a dustbin and a metal drain cover to smash the windscreen of a private bus which had knocked down an Indian, leading to his death in Little India area in the city.

PATNA: Sarabjit Singh's lawyer today urged the Pakistan President to exercise his constitutional power to commute death sentence of the Indian prisoner and order his release to strengthen ties with India. Sarabjit has been a victim of mistaken identity, lawyer Awais Sheikh said, adding that his innocence has been proved beyond doubt. "Sarabjit is a victim of mistaken identity for another accused in a terror case in Pakistan in 1990 and has been unjustifiably jailed for over 22 years for a crime that he did not commit," he said.

LONDON: Vijay Goel, a leading London-based lawyer, has been appointed as the Chairman of the UK's unit of ASSOCHAM . Goel, Senior Partner of Singhania & Co, one of the largest Indian law firms, is a lawyer predominantly focused on promoting businesses between the UK and Europe. He is currently holding the post of Chairman of Asian Business Association of the London Chamber of Commerce and is a founder member of the Indian European Business Forum. He has won many awards including the law day award from the President of India.

NEW YORK: As former McKinsey head Rajat Gupta heads for trial on insider trading charges, his lawyer says the Indian-American Wall Street executive feels strongly about his innocence in the high-profile case. Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs director, has been charged with passing on insider information he learned while serving on the boards of Goldman and Proctor and Gamble to Sri Lankan hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam . The former McKinsey head has pleaded not guilty and will go on trial on April 9. If convicted, he faces 20 years in prison on each of the securities fraud charges and five years for the conspiracy charge.

AHMEDABAD: Maintaining that there was enough evidence to prosecute Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the post-Godhra riots, the lawyer of Zakia Jafri today submitted his written submissions before the metropolitan magistrate. The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) is expected to file its reply by September 25. Arguments are already over. Jafri, whose husband and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was killed in the post-2002 riots, had filed a protest petition against the closure report filed last February by SIT, which gave a clean chit to Modi.

CHANDIGARH: Seeking immediate release of Sarabjit Singh , an Indian national on death row in Pakistan, his lawyer Awais Sheikh has said that Singh is a "victim of politics on both sides of the border. " "Sarabjit has been unjustifiably jailed for over 22 years for a crime that he did not commit. He was mistakenly held in the name of another person, Manjit Singh . It is Manjit's name that features in the FIR in a case of bombings in Pakistan in 1990," Sheikh said here.

MUMBAI: Lalit Modi's lawyer and the president of Sri Ganganagar District Cricket Association, Mehmood Abdi, has given a written police complaint here seeking criminal case be registered against BCCI chief N Srinivasan and some office bearers of TV broadcasters MSM/Sony: "We have received a written complaint on September 23 from lawyer Abdi who sought a criminal complaint be registered against Mr Srinivasan and others. We have recorded the statement of Mr Abdi. We are yet to record the statement of people against whom the complaint has been received," Marine Drive police station's senior PI, Rameshwar Suple , told PTI today.

NEW DELHI: The CBI has engaged a lawyer in Italy to represent India's case with the Italian government and the local courts to find out the role of Indians in the alleged kickbacks in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP helicopter deal. Official sources said today that the assistance of a lawyer was taken to help understand the Italian law and expedite getting documents from the helicopter company. The lawyer, if necessary, would be approaching the court in Italy for procurement of documents, they said.